Five programmes, one goal: more Roma-owned businesses reaching real markets.
Our work runs through five synchronized long-term initiatives rather than isolated projects. Each initiative removes a specific barrier between Roma entrepreneurs, financial institutions, and mainstream European markets.
02REDI Business Clubs
Pan-European network for Roma entrepreneurs
The REDI Business Club network provides an institutional framework dedicated to the growth of Roma entrepreneurs and their enterprises across Central and Eastern Europe.
While vulnerable communities can appear homogeneous from the outside, local market sellers and micro-enterprises often compete in fragmented local environments. Through REDI Business Clubs, we rebuild community trust via online and offline forums, B2B meetings, and regional business summits. Entrepreneurs identify synergies, trade together, and form joint commercial initiatives.
“If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.”
— Milton BerleMotto of the REDI Business Clubs Network
Contact point and incubation support
Establishing regional contact points for identifying Roma entrepreneurs and guiding them from initial business concept through legal registration, operational setup, and commercial scaling.
Information exchange and peer networking
Encouraging knowledge sharing, collaborative supply chains, and B2B partnerships among club members across different regions and sectors.
EU funding and project application guidance
Providing technical assistance and structured mentorship for Roma business owners applying for European Union grants, state subsidies, and development funding.
Technical assistance and certified experts database
Granting direct access to REDI’s database of certified experts across key business disciplines: accounting, tax compliance, digital marketing, legal affairs, and business plan design.
Bank loans and non-banking microfinance access
Assisting entrepreneurs in preparing credit applications for commercial banks, government loan schemes, and microfinance institutions backed by REDI Fund guarantees.
Institutional representation and quality standards
Building a unique, Roma-led representation structure interacting with state bodies and international chambers of commerce, maintaining high ethical and reputational standards.
Phase II of REDI's regional programme, extending business facilitation, grants and mentorship to Roma entrepreneurs across the Western Balkans and Türkiye.
DG NEAR, European Commission2024–2027Serbia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Türkiye
The first phase of REDI's regional programme, establishing business centres and facilitation services for Roma entrepreneurs in Serbia and North Macedonia.
DG NEAR, European Commission2021–2024Serbia, North Macedonia
A five-country Erasmus+ partnership building green entrepreneurship and digital skills among young Roma and other young people from disadvantaged backgrounds.
Erasmus+2022–2023Romania, Italy, North Macedonia, Serbia, Spain
Open Society Foundations support for building REDI's own institutional capacity across three countries — governance, finance systems and country teams.
Open Society Foundations2020–2021Romania, North Macedonia, Serbia
Promoting the effective implementation of objective 5 of the new EU Roma strategic framework in Romania and Bulgaria, through awareness raising, data collection and stakeholder capacity building.
DG Justice, European Commission2022–2024Romania, Bulgaria
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